Word: betokening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gielgud has chosen for his first American season of comedy a play which has the peculiar double aspect of a period piece and also of a classic achievement in language and satire. The revival of two Wilde plays in the United States this season may betoken better treatment for this greatest of wits: if so, the American theater will be adding immeasurably to its richness...
...term, Monday's joint session of Student Council members and men from the summer investigating group seemed doomed to failure. That the representatives succeeded in side-stepping personalities, in resolving procedural problems, and in setting the stage for intelligent and rapid work on the real issue at hand should betoken the beginning of a second and more productive stage in the job of reorganizing the Student Council and its constitution...
...confusion did not betoken forgiveness or lack of determination. U.S. occupation forces were still inadequate. Compilation of names and evidence was divided between Chungking, Manila and Washington. It was not until after the first list had been released in Tokyo that the State, War and Navy Departments in Washington cabled their combined list to MacArthur...
...concession was an easy one for SEC, which will still have time to issue stop orders against dubious issues. Nor did it betoken a sudden return to 1929 prosperity for the investment bankers. Reasons: 1) it will not help them to compete any more successfully with the insurance companies, whose direct purchases of new securities have enabled many a big borrower to by-pass the market entirely; 2) defense expansion, being mainly for emergency, non-commercial purposes, will probably be financed more by bank and RFC loans than by public offerings of long term debt or stock...